#beaten

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. ↗

— David Bailey

#beaten #being #choice #eight #five

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. ↗

— Rita Dove

#children #gets #i #i think #insight

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. ↗

— James Laughlin

#been #destruction #did #down #experience

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#abstract #beaten #beaten path #connect #going

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#barack obama #beaten #been #candidate #could

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son. ↗

— John Turturro

#beaten #been #chess #i #old

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten". ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#beaten #chief #does #i #man

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do. ↗

— Davey Havok

#christian #christians #course #day #heard